Currently I am studying a Masters course at the University of Limerick. The course examines today's technology, how it is implemented and new ways of creating interaction. This blog space will be used to map my research and new findings daily and what thoughts that I may have on the development of my design projects.

Friday, 17 February 2012

Dr. Gabriela Avram's class talk on Space and Place.

So in today's class we had a a great presentation on Space and Place. From the presentation we learned about how people build their habits in a place that they work in. So this idea of place which you share with people within a broader community.
We give a space some significance, meaning and place of interaction between other people. Also this idea that we are becoming more and more mobile, so this idea that we take our work to home. This idea of that we make a place, we go to coffee shops and sit on a lap top (Internet Cafe).
So what does mobility today require? It requires young people to use existing innovative technology to communicate with their friends. So what are new devices allowing us to do? They allow us to know the possibility of were good restaurants are, or even where our friends might be located in town when we go socializing.
So what are the consequences of this new technology that can give others our location?
This idea of dataVeillance. People can be traced by their digital footprint. An interesting point was talked about how the digital influences the physical.
We also touched on MeshUp, and the idea of combining a database with a map and how this can add to our digital footprint in regards of our current location.
The last thing we talked about was geosocial networks. What does this mean? Geo meaning world, so in theory, world social networks. People tweeting about things in their own place, creating a map of what is happening, a good example of this would be when and Earthquake happens, and people on location tweet about it This allows information to flow almost in realtime in relation to the event happening. This is a major move away from the depending on the national or global media.